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The goal of interfaces in the real world is to help people perform tasks quickly/efficiently, without error (and to easily recover when errors are made).

The goal of interfaces depicted in movies/media is to look cool.

(Sadly too many designers do not understand this)

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The line between “cool” and “ridiculous” isn’t always that broad.

In order to look at this and think “wow, that’s so cool, now it can type super fast” I do I agree that you need some nativity to not think “why not just plug in?”

Although, on second thought, maybe you need some pessimism and think “that’s a cool way to deal with incompatible ports and apis”

The character in the scene can’t plug in bc they don’t want to get the implant - it’s not explained in the anime tho

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